The Cinematic City offers an innovative and thought-provoking insight into cityscape and
screenscape and their inter-connection. Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse …

Despite the formidable growth of urban tourism there has been little of the critical
engagement that one would expect from the social sciences: the rich potential of …

* What is distinctive about urban life?* What key trends have shaped the contemporary city?*
How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies …

This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances
informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the …

Ally mother had said that I could not go into town alone, because I might be" spoken to" by
some man. I replied that I had already been" spoken to" and had been very angry with the …

China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space
holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban …

Rebetiko Worlds invites the reader to share the experience of rebetiko music-making in the
city of Thessaloniki today. It aims at representing an ethnographic world made of diverse …

For at least a decade, writers have endeavored to both criticize and defend neotraditional
urbanism. The battle has raged mostly at the macro-level, with advocates of new urban form …

According to certain scholars, the multicultural (global) city may constitute the ultimate site
for the development of cosmopolitan sensibilities. Taken to the extreme, the assumed …

In view of the supposed growth in recognition and public discussion of socio-environmental
threats, this paper attempts to locate contemporary writings on risk within geographical …